The story of Duxbury, 1637-1937, Part 9

Author: Long, Ellesley Waldo, 1895- editor
Publication date: 1937
Publisher: Duxbury, Mass., Duxbury Tercentenary Committee
Number of Pages: 262


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Among the funds which have been made avail- able for town use are the Lucy Hathaway Fund, which amounts to about thirty-three thousand dol- lars, to be applied to highways, bridges, schools and support of the poor as needed; the Thomas D. Hath- away Fund of twenty-nine hundred dollars, for use


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for sidewalks and shade trees; and the William Penn Harding Fund of one thousand dollars for the use of the Free Library.


Most interesting of all is the provision made by "King Caesar" Weston's great-grandson, William Bradford Weston, for the "King Caesar Poor Fund," and the "King Caesar Hospital."


A sum of sixty-one hundred dollars was deposited in 1916, with the understanding that interest is to be permitted to accumulate until July 14, 2016. The accumulated sum is to be divided into two parts -one-eighth, and seven-eighths.


The one-eighth part shall be paid to the town treasurer for the relief of the aged and the poor who are not in the town infirmary. This is to be known as the "King Caesar Poor Fund."


The second part, representing the seven-eighths, is, at the end of one hundred years, to provide for "a small fireproof hospital with modern improve- ments, to cost not more than one-fourth of the then value of said . . . accumulated fund . .. " The balance of the fund is to provide income for oper- ating expense of the institutions. "All beds in said hospital shall be absolutely free to all citizens of Duxbury, unless they are perfectly able to pay ; and said hospital shall be known as the "King Caesar Hospital."


So the long arm of "King Caesar," once the best- known shipowner in America, reaches out through the centuries to help those who came after him.


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Captain David Cushman Captain John Bradford


Captain Alexander Wadsworth Captain Josephus Dawes Duxbury Sea Captains.


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Captain David Cushman, Jr.


C 1 APTAIN DAVID CUSHMAN, JR., was born in Duxbury on September 24, 1807, in the house known then as the Cushman house, and later as the McNaught house. He was one of eleven children, the youngest of whom was a half-brother.


David Cushman began his sea life as a cabin boy, at the age of fourteen. In 1831, he was mate of the vessel, Hebe. Later, he shipped as Master in many of "King Caesar" Weston's vessels.


One of his trips in the ship, Roscious, is sketched tersely in the ship's log:


"From Boston towards Cape Town, Cape Good Hope, June 2, 1839, with a crew of fifteen men, David Cushman, Jr., Master; at anchor in Cape Town Harbor, Table Bay, Aug. 16. From Cape Town towards Manila, Sept. 10. From Manila towards Canton, Nov. 29. From Macoa towards Manila, March 11, 1840. From Manila towards China, April 1. From China towards N.Y., June 3, with a full cargo of teas and silk. Sailed from Macoa June 6. Arrived in New York, Nov. 2, 1840."


He sailed in the ship, Undine, from 1842 to 1844, in the Mattakeeset in 1844 and 1845, in the Pros- pero from 1851 to 1853, and in the Delphos in 1857.


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He also commanded vessels owned by Mr. Augus- tus Hemenway of Boston. He sailed around Cape Horn during every month of the year, and around the world many times, encountering hurricanes, tornadoes, waterspouts and earthquakes in foreign waters, but never lost a vessel and never met with a serious accident. He made his last voyage in the clipper ship, Kingfisher, in 1860-1862, concluding an active sea career of forty years.


On April 11, 1841, he married Mary Winsor Alden Sampson, a widow, and went to housekeep- ing in what is now called the Town Offices. They had five children.


Captain Cushman bought land from Major Judah Alden and others of the Alden family, and had Jo- seph Weston build a house in 1846. It is still oc- cupied by his son's wife and daughter.


He joined the Marine Society on August 19, 1839, and the Masons on May 31, 1847. He was a Master Mason in 1871. He died on October 6, 1878, at the age of seventy-one.


-LUCIE HALL CUSHMAN


Captain Josephus Dawes


Born in the Tinkertown neighborhood of Dux- bury in 1820, the son of Abraham and Deborah (Darling) Dawes, educated through intermittent attendance at the local school (which stood half- way up the hill between the Mill Pond and the present Island Creek post office), Josephus Dawes


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began his sea-going career at the age of seven when he accompanied his father on a fishing voyage in Massachusetts Bay. From that time until he was fourteen, he attended school in the winter, went to the Banks during "the muddy season," and during several summers was apprenticed to Joseph Sim- mons whose place in Island Creek he later bought for his home.


At fourteen, he signed ship's papers as a boy be- fore the mast on a vessel commanded by his brother, Captain Allen Dawes, and continued to sail with him, with ever-increasing responsibilities, until 1841.


At twenty-one, a man in his own right, Josephus Dawes was made master of the brig, August, owned by Joseph Holmes of Kingston in whose employ he served for nineteen years, frequently succeeding his brother as master of a ship and being succeeded in the same ship by his brother, James H. Dawes. In 1852 and 1853, the California gold rush attracted him. The call of the sea, however, was stronger; and until 1862, he engaged in the Mediterranean fruit trade, making many fast trips and records. Speed was necessary especially when several fruit vessels were leaving the Mediterranean at the same time, for the first to reach the home port received the best prices for the fruit. Of the bark, Fruiter, commonly referred to as "the old green box," Cap- tain Dawes used to say: "She'd stick her nose under the water when we came out of Gibraltar and never take it out until we sighted Boston Light."


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Off Cape Good Hope, in the early days of the Civil War, Captain Dawes had to conceal under canvas the name of his vessel, Valetta, on account of the nearness of the Confederate cruiser, Alabama. The four years following, he spent trading on the China coast.


In 1867, he superintended at East Boston the building of the bark, Annie W. Weston (named for the daughter of Joshua Weston of Duxbury) and commanded her until his retirement in 1871. In her, Captain Dawes traded between San Francisco and England, on one voyage carrying a load of guano from Howland's Island, that tiny dot in the Pacific to which Amelia Earhart's air-circumnaviga- tion of the globe has given some prominence. On this occasion, as on many of his voyages, Captain Dawes was accompanied by his wife who, carried ashore by Kanakas, was the first white woman to visit the island.


On his retirement, Captain Dawes settled down in the home to which he had taken his bride, Sally Freeman (daughter of Bradford and Waity (Win- sor) Freeman) in 1842. Until his death in 1910, Captain Dawes divided his time between his home in Island Creek and Haverhill, Massachusetts. For him, a day began at sunrise or a little earlier; and, during his last years, after hours spent in his garden or at his wood pile (his knitting-work, as he called it), the day ended in the middle of the afternoon when he stumped into the house saying: "Guess I'll knock off and call it half a day."


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In his thirty years as a master mariner, he never lost a man at sea or had a disaster. He assisted, however, while in the China seas, in saving the crew, most of whom were Duxbury men, of the Fruiterer, a Kingston ship commanded by his brother, Cap- tain James H. Dawes. Though he had doubled Cape Horn and Cape Good Hope several times and had circumnavigated the globe, life ashore never seemed dull to him, for he loved life; and "It takes life to love life."


-SALLY FREEMAN DAWES


Captain John Bradford


John Bradford was born in Duxbury on Novem- ber 27, 1823. He attended the Point School, and from the age of ten worked in the Weston ropewalk, of which his father was manager. When he was fif- teen, he made his first voyage, with Captain Joshua Drew, in the ship, Oneco. Now and then he stopped at home to help in rigging a vessel. In the winter of 1840-1841, he spent his last term at school.


In 1850, he took command of the ship, Hope. His wife, a former schoolmate, accompanied him on most of his voyages in the cotton service between New Orleans and Liverpool, and later to the coasts of South America, and to India and China in the ships, Garnet, and Frederic Tudor. For seven years at one time they did not see the shores of New England. During four of those years, their daughter was with them.


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From 1877 to 1890, he served as a Port Warden of Boston, and settled in Winchester. Death came suddenly while he was in Duxbury for a day, May 1, 1893.


Captain Bradford ranked high among ship- masters for his competence in navigation, seaman- ship and business ability. He was respected for his staunch integrity, sobriety and good sense, and loved for his frank and kindly nature. His hearty, joyous laugh was like a fresh breeze that blows away the mists. Well-read in history and biography, he took a lively interest in national and world affairs, and expressed himself well in speech and writing.


Amid the untold hardships of a sailor's life, as well as the head winds and adverse currents that be- set every man, he kept his rudder true.


-ELLEN BRADFORD STEBBINS


Hannah Davis Symmes


If perchance a visitor to the Duxbury of the good old horse and buggy days had been walking along the needle-strewn path beneath the stately pines which bordered the narrow, rutted dirt road leading toward the trio of ancient buildings-the Unitarian Church, the Town Hall, and Partridge Academy-he would very likely have seen ap- proaching at a leisurely trot a sleek, mild-eyed, old brown horse drawing a capacious Goddard buggy.


The occupant of the buggy proves to be a slender, frail appearing little woman, delicate of feature and


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complexion, and somewhat remarkable for her wealth of gleaming auburn hair and for the bril- liance of her eyes. Beside her on the buggy seat is a well worn "Boston bag" crammed to overflow- ing with textbooks and with classroom papers for home correction.


Anyone at all familiar with the Duxbury of the period thus visited in retrospect will have recog- nized the lady as being Miss Hannah Davis Symmes, who for many years served faithfully and most efficiently, up to a few months previous to her death, as a teacher in the public schools of the town.


Hannah Davis Symmes was born in Duxbury in the year 1867. His parents were Daniel and Selina (Weston) Symmes. Hers was one of the adven- turous company of New Englanders who sought their fortunes in the gold fields of the far west dur- ing the exciting days of 1849.


Miss Symmes acquired her education in the schools of Duxbury. Upon her graduation from the Partridge Academy, she decided to make teaching her life work. She was given charge of the district school at Ashdod. There, and later at the High Street school, she gave generously to the children of that period the benefit of her goodly store of knowledge. Her integrity, faithfulness and effi- ciency eventually won for her in 1892 a well earned promotion to the position of assistant principal of Partridge Academy, which office was held by Miss Symmes until the spring of 1903, when failing health


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forced her to terminate her professional activities. She died on December 31, 1903.


Miss Symmes was an ardent lover of nature; and it was her delight to roam through the woods in search of flowers, or on berrying excursions, or on evergreen-gathering expeditions at Christmastide. She enjoyed sailing and rowing in the beautiful bay.


Some of the most pleasant recollections of my childhood are of hours spent with Miss Symmes and her gentle, silvery haired mother, in their cozy Cape Cod cottage on the hilltop on the northerly side of Bay Road (then known as Border Street). She possessed a keen sense of humor, and was en- dowed with a boundless patience and a sympathetic nature which, together with her brilliant mentality, made her a fitting companion for either child or adult. Her life was always one of unselfish devotion to her profession, to her family and to her innumer- able friends.


-JAMES CHANDLER INGALLS


Captain Nathan B. Watson


Captain Nathan B. Watson is remembered by many of the older residents as an outstanding yachtsman. He gave up building small boats on the Jones River to become master of the Constellation, a schooner yacht owned first by Bayard Thayer of Boston, later by Francis Skinner, Jr., also of Bos- ton. At the time, she was the largest and fastest sailing yacht of her class.


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Previously, Captain Watson had sailed the sloop, Nimbus, of Cohasset, the cutter, Huron, of Boston and New York, and other yachts so skillfully that Bayard Thayer insisted upon his taking command of the Constellation. It meant giving up his boat- building business and giving full time to cruising in the West Indies and southern waters in general in the winter, and wherever the owner might desire at other times of the year.


Captain "Nate" was one of the Watson family which owned Clark's Island from the beginning of the grants to the First Comers. He was born on the island in 1844, and died there in 1925.


His first wife was a daughter of Captain Harvey Ransom, for many years a pilot in Plymouth Har- bor. It is related of Captain Ransom that the cap- tain of a vessel which had taken him aboard as pilot, was doubtful of his ability to keep the vessel off the rocks and flats, as it was being piloted in where the water was shoal.


"Captain," inquired the master of the vessel, "do you know where all the rocks are?"


"No, Cap'n," replied the pilot in his soft, un- ruffled voice. "But I know where they ain't."


In 1874, Captain "Nate" Watson built the first smooth planked boat for lobstering and fishing in these bays. She was the Wanderer, sprit sail, seven- teen feet over all, larger and faster than any of the lap-streak or clinker-built boats which had been built in Duxbury or on Clark's Island.


The Wanderer had a deep keel and was very


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sharp forward. It was predicted that she would run under in a strong breeze; but the prediction did not come true. It was the end of the full-bowed boats when it was seen what she would do.


In that same year, Captain Watson built on Jones River the Idle Hour, a center-board cabin sloop, twenty-five feet over all, for Lewis Henry Keith of Kingston, winner of the capital prize a few years before in the Louisiana lottery. It was the first yacht built in this vicinity and attracted much in- terest.


Captain "Nate" was almost uncanny in his ability to mark on the side of any boat which he built, what would be the water line when she was launched.


-WINTHROP WINSLOW


Fanny Davenport McDowell


Though not a native of Duxbury, Fanny Daven- port was so long a resident of the town and so ad- mired by the townspeople that they claimed her as one of them.


Born in London, April 10, 1850, the daughter of Edward L. Davenport, famous actor of his time, Fanny Davenport was about ten years old when she made her first stage appearance at the Howard Atheneum in Boston as the child in Metamora, a play now forgotten. During her childhood, she ap- peared in numerous roles in New York and Phila-


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delphia and finally came under the management of Augustin Daly of the Fifth Avenue Theater, New York, in 1869. Her great success as an actress dated from that relationship.


During her many successful years on the stage, she toured the country as a star in many plays, notable among which was Cleopatra, by the French playwright, Sardou.


Divorced from her first husband, she married Melbourne McDowell, the actor, and with him took active part in the summer life of Duxbury. Both she and Mr. McDowell were ardent disciples of cat- boat racing.


The McDowell boat, Fanny D., was a familiar sight in Duxbury Bay in the nineties when the cat- boat racing was at its height.


The Fanny Davenport house, as it is still called, is a colonial mansion which is separated from the roadway by a magnificent lawn. During Miss Dav- enport's life, it was a scene of brilliant social gath- erings, and a meeting place of noted people of poli- tics and the professions.


Captain Alexander Wadsworth


Alexander Wadsworth was born in Duxbury on August 22, 1808, the son of Ahira Wadsworth and Deborah Sprague Wadsworth, eldest daughter of Seth Sprague of Duxbury.


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Although he went to sea later in life than did most Duxbury boys of that time, he was captain of a ship at the age of twenty-three. On his first trip as captain, he sailed his little brig, Fortune, with a crew of only eight men, around Cape Horn to China. Cooking on the Fortune was done in an open fireplace.


Captain Wadsworth married Beulah Holmes of Duxbury, who accompanied him on some of his voyages. They had two sons, Francis Gray Ford (my father), and Alexander Seaborn. She died in giving birth to the latter, in the Bay of Bengal where the ship was becalmed for six weeks.


His second wife was Selina Hilton of Damris- cotta, Maine, a distant cousin, who survived him but a few years.


During his active life at sea, Captain Wadsworth sailed chiefly for his grandfather, Seth Sprague. Among the vessels which he commanded between 1829 and his retirement were the brigs, Arabian, Falcon, William & Henry, Ceylon, and Favorite, and the ships, Constantine, Vespasian, Vandalia, Seth Sprague and Mattakeeset.


One of his last voyages was to India with a cargo of ice from the Tudors of Boston. So expertly was the cargo stowed that less than fifteen per cent of it melted during the long voyage.


. In 1863, Captain Wadsworth retired to his fine old colonial house, notable for its captain's walk five feet high. The house stood on Washington Street opposite the Carmichael house.


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Captain Wadsworth died on December 30, 1900. Four years later, shortly after the fine old home had been destroyed by fire, his widow passed away.


-LOUISE G. WADSWORTH


Descendants of the First Families


Though there are in the town descendants of Captain Myles Standish, there are none who bear his name. The last of that name was Dr. Myles Standish, famous Boston oculist, who was for many years directing head of the group which assumed charge of the Standish Monument and the sur- rounding reservation.


Families who perpetuate the names of the early settlers of the seventeenth century include the fol- lowing: Alden, Ames, Arnold, Bailey, Baker, Barker, Bartlett, Bates, Bradford, Brett, Briggs, Brown, Bryant, Bumpus, Carver, Chandler, Chap- man, Dawes, Delano, Eaton, Ford, Freeman, Gard- ner, Glass, Hall, Hill, Holmes, Howland, Hunt, Loring, Morton, Nelson, Palmer, Peterson, Phil- lips, Pierce, Prince, Randall, Reed, Reynolds, Rip- ley, Russell, Sampson, Shaw, Simmons, Smith, Snow, Soule, Sprague, Stetson, Thomas, Tower, Turner, Wadsworth, Walker, Washburn, Weston, White, and Winsor.


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INDEX OF PERSONS


A


Bailey, Lewis M., 185


Bailey, William, 182


Adams, Carrie, 75


Adams, George E., 204


Adams, Horatio, 24


Adams, J. B. G., 195


Barstow, Henry, 182, 184, 185


Alden, Charles E., 182


Alden, Henry, 185


Bates, Mary Amanda, 107


Alden, Ichabod, 78


Beal, C. W., 148, 154


Alden, Isaiah, 173


Beals, Thomas, 20 Beaman, Samuel B., 183, 185


Alden, John, 6, 44, 78


Alden, John, 185


Bigelow, Mrs. Warren G., 65


Alden, John W., 185


Bihldorff, Carl B., 51


Alden, Jonathan, 80, 81


Billings, John D., 183


Alden, Judah, 48, 129, 173, 216


Alden, Mary Ann, 48


Binney, Charles, 104


Birtsch, Professor, 148


Bishop, Edward, 182


Bittinger, Charles, 204, 209


Blanchard, Howard D., 204


Boardman, H. J., 195


Bodge, George M., 195, 196


Bolton, Joseph F., Jr., 204


Bonney, George H., Jr., 183


Boomer, Charles W., 204, 207


Andrew, John A., 179


Booth, Newell S., 69, 72


Borncamp, Edward, 66 Bosworth, Rev., 71


Bowen, James H., 182


Bowin, Alphonse, 185


Boyer, Frank W., 136


Bradford, George, 17, 23, 188, 194 Bradford, Gershom, 48, 49


Babcock, Samuel, 66 Bailey, George H., 185


Baker, Mary E., 71


Baker, Otis, 113


Baker, Otis, Jr., 113


Barrett, Ernest, 204


Alden, Benjamin, 20, 48


Bartlett, Frederick B., 66


Bartlett, Ichabod, 125


Alden, Priscilla, 44, 78


Alden, Samuel, 46


Alden, Thomas, 185


Alden, William J., Jr., 195


Allen, Stephen M., 188, 195


Allyn, John, 20, 29, 47, 50


Ames, Fisher, Jr., 204


Ames, Oliver, 194, 195, 196 Anderson, Sir James, 148, 156


Arnold, Edward, 173


Atwell, Edwin, 185


Atwell, Samuel, 180, 195


B


Binney, C. F., 104


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Abbott, Lewis B., 185


Index of Persons


Bradford, Gershom, 204 Bradford, John, 17, 114, 219, 220 Bradford, Laurence, 184, 185, 193, 194, 203 Bradford, William, 6, 7, 43


Bradley, John R., 185


Bradley, Philip B., 204


Bradley, Preston, 51


Bragdon, Frederick E., 34, 35, 37


Branigan, William H., 50


Brastow, George, 148, 153


Brent, Bishop, 66


Brett, Franklin, 7, 209


Brewster, Jonathan, 44


Brewster, Joshua, 173


Brewster, Joshua T., 182


Brewster, Melzar, 79, 185


Church, Waldo, 185


Brewster, William, 13, 44, 55, 133


Claflin, Gov. William B., 156 Clapp, William, 146


Briggs, Ebenezer N., 204


Clare, Wilfred M., 204


Brooks, F. L., 69


Brooks, Philips, 66


Brown, A. O., 195


Brown, E. W., 196


Bryant, George, 182


Buckley, John J., 75, 76


Bumpus, Edward, 6, 7


Burditt, Alfred, 113


Burditt, Andrew, 113


Burgess, James K., 135, 183, 185, 186 Burr, Rushton D., 50


C


"Caesar, King," 49 Cahoon, Benjamin G., 185, 194 Campbell, William B., 185 Carnegie, A., 69 Cecil, Sir Sackville, 148, 155


Chaffin, William E., 34


Chamberlain, Mellen, 195 Chandler, Arthur C., 204


Chandler, Charles J., 182


Chandler, Earle M., 204


Chandler, E. Edgar, 185 Chandler, Ernest A., 204 Chandler, Elbridge H., 23, 180


Chandler, Hiram O., 185 Chandler, Horatio, 125 Chandler, Howard, 173


Chandler, Julius B., 185


Chandler, Parker B., 186


Chandler, Samuel G., 136


Chandler, Thomas, 173


Cheever, Ralph H., 50


Chick, Leland A., 204


Child, Dudley R., 50


Church, Benjamin, 78


Clark, Joseph F., 204


Clark, Roy B., 204


Clark, Stephen, 182


Coe, Reginald H., 66


Cole, Joseph G., 161


Cook, Peleg, 181


Cotton, John, 44


Courtney, James H., 76 Cox, Charles J., 185 Crocker, Frederick O., 185


Crocker, John H., 182


Crocker, Samuel L., 179


Crothers, Samuel M., 51


Crowley, Rev. Fr., 76


Cunningham, Herbert N., 66 Curtin, John S., 204


Cushing, Earle S., 204 Cushing, Joshua, 104


Cushing, Nathaniel, 104


Cushing, Paul H., 204


Cushing, Stephen A., 183


Cushman, David, Jr., 111, 145, 215, 216.


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Church, David F., 182


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Cushman, George P., 135, 185


Cushman, Lucie Hall, 216


Cushman, Robert, 26


Cushman, Mrs. Walter, 145


Drew, Samuel, 90


Drew, Sylvanus, 107


D


Dalton, Samuel, 195 Daly, Augustin, 225 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 99 Davenport, Edward, 224 Davenport, Fanny (see McDow- ell)


E


Earhart, Amelia, 218


Edgar, John R., 204


Edson, William B., 23


Ellis, Thomas, 186


Ellison, Agnes E., 209


Ellison, Almeda, 60


Ellison, William, 60


Emmanuel, King Victor, 153


Etheridge, George, 201


F


Facey, Edwin T., 204


Ferrell, Wm. N., 204


Ford, Florence G., 51, 126, 129


Ford, George W., 23, 181


Deane, Charles, 195


Ford, Harriett, 126, 129


Ford, James T., 126


Ford, Jonathan, 147


Ford, Nathaniel, 126


Ford, Peleg, 126


Delano, Oliver, 173


Ford, Ralph B., 204


Delano, Oscar, 182


Fortescue, C. E. F., 204


Delano, Otis, 185


Foster, Cyrus R., 204


Foster, Hiram, 185


Fowler, Alfred, 185


De Mayer, John E., 34


Frazar, Amherst A., 161


Dorr, Francis B., 182


Frazar, George, 155


Dorr, Nathan, 185


Frazar, Mrs. George B., 51


Frazar, Samuel A., 20, 125


Freeman, Benjamin, 90


Freeman, Bradford, 218


Freeman, Enoch, 185


Freeman, Sally, 218


Freeman, Waity W., 218


Drew, Isaac, 90


Drew, Joseph, 125


Drew, Joshua, 219


Drew, Reuben, 107, 125


Dawes, Allen, 112, 217


Dawes, Deborah, 216


Dawes, James H., 112, 113, 217, 219 Dawes, John C., 113


Dawes, Josephus, 112, 193, 216, 217, 218


Dawes, Reuben, 173


Dawes, Robert A., 204


Dawes, Sally Freeman, 219


De La Noye, Philip, 44 Delano, Daniel W., 182 Delano, Jephtha, 173 Delano, Mercy, 29


Delano, Ray, 204


Delano, Samuel, 90


Doten, S. H., 196 Downey, James, 185, 186, 195


Drew, Alfred, 147


Drew, Carrol A., 204


Drew, Charles, 107


David, William T., 195


Dawes, Abraham, 216


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Freeman, William, 20 Frizzell, Samuel, 204


G


Gardner, Samuel, 173 Garrison, William Lloyd, 177


Gately, George A., 75, 77 Gearin, Martin, 204 Gier, William, 73


Gifford, Chandler, 204


Gifford, Edmund, 17


Gifford, Robert G., 204


Gifford, Stephen N., 15, 16, 139, 147, 148, 153, 160, 161, 181, 188


Glass, Eugene R., 204


Glass, Harrison T., 182


Glass, Seth, 182


Glover, Richard S., 187


Glover, Theodore W., Jr., 35


Goodrich, Benjamin F., 35, 209


Goodspeed, Warren M., 204


Goodwin, LeBaron, 183, 193


187,


Goulding, Albert M., 185, 186


Gray, Captain, 114


Green, George E., 26, 37


Green, Howard D., 204


Green, Ralph B., 204, 207


Gridley, Thomas, 183, 185


Grover, Edervene M., 207


Guild, Hannah B., 15


H


Haberstroh, Andrew F., 76 Hahn, Andrew, 50, 51 Haley, J. W., 57 Hall, A. A. C., 66 Hall, Parker, 112


Hall, Samuel, 103, 104, 161


Hall, Winfield, 69 Harding, William Penn, 210


Harlow, Eleazar, 122


Harris, Benjamin W., 195 Harris, Lebbeus, 184, 185


Hartford, Alton H., 26 Harwood, Mrs. Sydney, 65


Hatch, Samuel, 6 Hathaway, Henry, 201 Hathaway, Jerusha, 50, 51,


119


Hathaway, Lucy, 50, 51, 209 Hathaway, Thomas D., 209


Haverstock, John H., 185, 195 Hayes, Frank A., 207


Hemenway, Augustus, 111, 216 Hicks, John, 130, 159


Higgins, George L., 183, 185


Hiller, William, 122 Hilton, Selina, 226 Hinchcliffe, Robert, 76


Hodges, Nathaniel, 173 Hoffman, Max, 74


Hollis, John B., Jr., 194


Holmes, Arthur, 95


Holmes, Beulah, 226


Holmes, Ephraim, 125


Holmes, John, 45


Holmes, Joseph, 217


Holmes, Roy A., 207


Holway, Lowell H., 207


Holway, William H., 61


Hoover, Virgil M., 72


Howard, Francis, 75


Howe, Julia Ward, 29 Howland, Jared, 125


Hubbard, Glenn S., 207


Huckins, Stuart, 207


Huiginn, E. J. V., 66, 78


Hullin, Anthony, 73


Hunt, Cassius H., 207


I


Ingalls, James C., 222 Irwin, John A., 135


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J


Jacobs, Allen, 62, 66


Jacobs, Charles F., 24, 32


Jacobs, Stella C., 24


Janser, Rev. Fr., 73


Jenkins, Mary T., 29


Jewett, John P., 88


Johnson, W. T., 69


Jones, Joseph T. C., 61 Josselyn, John E., 185


K


Kaltenbach, G. H., 66


Keen, Isaac, 125, 147


Keen, Nathan, 185


Keen, N. Porter, 107, 108


Keep, William J., 182


Keith, Lewis H., 224


Kendall, James, 20, 23 Kennard, Waldo, 207 Kent, Benjamin, 50


Kidder, Frederick, 72


Killian, James H., 185, 195


Kimball, Thatcher R., 66 King, Clement, 6


King, Gordon L., 55, 61


King, Mrs. Gordon L., 61


Kinney, Joseph, 173


Knapp, Frederick B., 18, 24, 79, 80, 209


Knapp, Frederick N., 19, 24, 50, 194, 195, 196 Knight, Thomas H. H., 24, 25 Knowles, Samuel, 160


L


Latham, Rev., 57 Lawrence, William, 65, 66 Laud, Archbishop, 44 Leach, Frederic, 207 Leach, Rodney M., 185


Leahy, Daniel F., 77 Le Mosy, Francis, 207 Lewis, Abel T., 182


Lewis, Henry H., 185


Livermore, Daniel P., 54


Livermore, Mary A., 29, 54, 177 Lloyd, Eugene, 72


Long, John D., 195


Loring, Bailey, 161


Loring, Edgar, 134


Loring, George, 104, 125


Loring, Mrs. George, 153


Loring, George B., 154, 195


Loring, John S., 23, 141, 147, 160, 188


Loring, Nathaniel, 125


Loring, Samuel, 73, 181, 194


Lowden, George, 180


Lyle, W. W., 58, 60


M


Machado, Ernest, 65


Mack, Joseph H., 185


Maglathlin, Edward B., 24


Maglathlin, Henry B., 162, 181


Martin, Theodore D., 66


Massasoit, 5


Mather, Increase, 45


Mather, Richard, 44


McAuliffe, Paul, 207


McDowell, Fanny Davenport,


224, 225


McDowell, Melbourne, 225 Mckay, Helen, 36


McNaught, Thomas T., 185


Means, Robert S., 207


Mercer, Samuel A. B., 66


Merritt, Amos, 108, 111


Merritt, John, 108, 111


Merry, Frederick B., 207


Merry, John, 61


Mockbridge, Charles, 66


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Index of Persons


Moore, Josiah, 20, 23, 24, 48, 49, 50, 153, 160 Mott, Arthur J., 26


N


Napoleon III, 153


Peterson, Elisha, 208


Nash, Samuel, 5


Peterson, Elizabeth S., 53


Needham, Hubert B., 207


Peterson, Elmer W., 207


Nevers, Helen T., 29


Peterson, Jonathan


Nickerson, Alma, 61


Peterson, Reuben C., 17


Nickerson, George F., 17


Peterson, Stephen S., 185


Nightingale, Alvin E., 207


Peterson, Walter, 183


Northup, Tharold C., 67, 70


Peterson, Warren E., 136


Noyes, Charles J., 195


Philip, King, 78


Phillips, Wendell, 18


Pierce, Henry B., 195


Pierce, Leander B., 185


Pierce, Professor, 148


Pinkham, George R., 24


Pollard, George, 122


Porter, John, 23


Powers, Charles, 114


Powers, Edwin, 114


Pratt, Calvin, 147


Pratt, Charles R. M., 185


Pratt, Frederick A., 186


Pressey, Ernest, 66


Prince, Thomas, 90


Prince, Walter G., 207, 208


Prior, Allen, 59, 147


Prior, Benjamin, 90


Prouty, Barden H., 186


Pugsley, Rev., 72


Putnam, M. R., 70


Paddock, Benjamin, 66


Parker, Viscount (cable), 148


Parks, John H., 24, 37


Parks, Roy B., 207


Partridge, George, 19, 51


Randall, Albert F., 207


Randall, Charles G., 207


Randall, Howard, 72


Randall J. Dexter, 35


Ransom, Harvey, 223


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R


Partridge, Isaac, 125


Partridge, James, 52


Partridge, Ralph, 15, 44, 45


Paulding, George T., 207


Paulding, Henry B., 183


Paulding, William, 107


Peabody, William, 7


Perkins, Levi, 135


Peterson, Abbot, 51


Peterson, Ellis, 23


0


Oakman, H. A., 32 O'Connell, William Cardinal, 73, 76


Oldham, John, 90


O'Neil, James T., 207


Osborn, R. J. N., 36


Osgood, Jarius, 71


Otheman, Bartholomew, 71


Ousamequin (see Massasoit)


Owens, George E., 96


P


Noyes, Edwin N., 207


Noyes, Nathaniel K., 207


Noyes, Richard S., 207


Peterson, Josiah, 180, 188, 194


Newitt, George J., 207


Index of Persons


Redmond, William T., 207 Reynolds, Darius D., 207


Reynolds, Gladys D., 207


Reynolds, Harvey J., 186 Rice (Livermore), Mary, 29, 53


Richards, G. Sherman, 66


Richardson, George P., 20, 23, 48 Ritchie, James, 20, 23


Rix, Daniel, 183


Robinson, John, 46


Rodgers, Charles A., 186


Rogers, Luther, 104


Simmons, Levi P., 194


Simmons, Wilbur F., 183


Skinner, Francis, Jr., 222


Smith, Clarence, 136 Smith Frederick W., 50


Smith, Hambleton E., 23, 194


Smith, Jonathan, 17


Smith, Sylvanus, 48


Sneed, J. Richard, 70


Snell, Aaron, 183 Soule, Aurelius, 183


Soule, Freeman, 114


Soule, Harvey, 160


Soule, Mrs. Horace H., 55


Soule, James, 90


Soule, Joseph A., 186


Sampson, George B., 183


Soule, Marcellus, 186


Soule, Nathan T., 33


Soule, Oscar B., 207


Soule, Oscar H., 186


Soule, Samuel P., 186


Soule, Thomas, 129, 130


Soule, William, 183


Southworth, Constant, 5


Southworth, John, 183


Speare, Mrs. Marion, 65


Speight, Harold E. B., 52


Sprague, Samuel, 7 Sprague, Seth, 15, 23, 45, 55, 56, 62, 173, 225, 226


Seabury, Samuel, 125 Searles, A. N., 69


Seymour, James W., 207 Sever, John, 20


Shaw, Josephine, 209 Shaw, Lila, 61


Sherman, Frederic P., 186


Sherman, Joseph, 186 Sherrill, Henry Knox, 66 Shurtleff, Gideon, 186 Shurtleff, N. B., 148 Simmons, Daniel J., 183


Simmons, John, 35 Simmons, Joseph, 217


Simmons, Joseph E., 183


Roumanière, Edmund, 62


Rowse, Frederick H., 66


Russell, Thomas, 147, 148, 153


Ryder, George F., 183, 186 Ryder, Gilbert M., 186


S


Sampson, Abner, 173 Sampson, Andrew, 173


Sampson, Bradford, 183


Sampson, Eben S., 180


Sampson, Eden, 183


Sampson, Edward, 186 Sampson, Erastus, 113, 120


Sampson, Henry, 144 Sampson, Isaac L., 186 Sampson, Levi, 103, 107 Sampson, Lucy Sprague, 62, 65


Sampson, Margie S., 51


Sampson, Mary W. A., 216


Sampson, Sarah Sprague, 62 Sampson, William H., 159 Sanger, Zedekiah, 46, 47 Sawyer, Benjamin A., 183, 186 Scipione, Michael, 207 Scott, George W. W., 186


Sprague, Uriah, 173 Squanto, 133 Standish, Alexander, 130


235


Index of Persons


Standish, Barbara, 44


Standish, L. Myles, 195


Tinker, Harry L., 61


Tobey, Edward S., 153, 155


Tolman, Charles, 186


Tolman, William H., 186


Standish, Warren, 108


Torrey, David, 53


Stearns, George H., 202, 209


Torrey, George H., 186


Stebbins, Ellen Bradford, 219, 220


196 Tracie, John, 7


Sterns, Miss, 15


Stetson, Andrew, 160


Train, Adeline M., 65


Stetson, Emma, 23, 24


Train, Hannah, 65


Stetson, Julia, 23


Trusty, Timothy, 126


Stetson, Samuel, 160


Tuckerman, Gustavus, 66


Stone, Lucy, 29


Turner, Charles, 46


Studley, Arthur R., 207


Turner, John F., 183, 186


Sullivan, William L., 51


Turner, Luther, 103


Swan, Robert B., 71


Turner, William J., 207


Sweetser, E. J., 186


Sweetser, Sarah, 59 Swift, Elisha, 183


U


Swift, Joshua W., 145, 160, 194


Upham, Samuel F., 68


Sylvester, Israel, 90


Symmes, Daniel, 221


V


Veazie, Samuel, 46


Vetch, Lieutenant, 153 Victoria, Queen, 153 Vinal, James, 145


T


Taylor, Chase, 71


W


Tervainen, Agnes, 70


Thayer, Albert M., 186, 194


Thayer, Bayard, 222, 223


Thayer, George O., 207


Thomas, Briggs, 23


Thomas, C. B., 147, 153


Thomas, Ernest, 187


Thomas, Ira S., 186


Thomas, Lewis J., 60


Wadsworth, Hamilton, 186


Thomas, Nathaniel, 7


Wadsworth, Henry, 181


Thomas, William H., 186


Wadsworth, Ahira, 225 Wadsworth, Alexander S., 225, 226, 227 Wadsworth, Benjamin, 91


Wadsworth, Christopher, 207


Wadsworth, Deborah, 225


Wadsworth, Francis G. F., 226


Wadsworth, John, 45


236


Sweet, Frank W., 32


Turner, William P., 207


Symmes, Hannah Davis, 24, 220, 221, 222 Symmes, Selina W., 221, 222


Thompson, Walter, 147 Tileston, Frederic M., 50


Standish, Myles, 5, 6, 44, 66, 78, 79, 81, 130, 174, 184, 187, 188, 193, 203, 209, 227 Standish, Myles, 227


Tower, John W., 183, 186, 194,


Index of Persons


Wadsworth, Joseph, 23


Wadsworth, Louise G., 227


Wilson, John H., 50, 51


Winslow, Arthur F., 207


Winslow, Edward, 6, 125


Winslow, Roland C., 17


Walker, Percy L., 35


Walter, George W., 207


Warden, Mrs. Henry H., 62


Winsor, Daniel, 23, 113


Washburn, Solomon, 160


Winsor, Elbridge G., 114


Winsor, Gershom, 183


Watson, Nathan B., 222, 223, 224


Winsor, Henry, 201


Winsor, Henry O., 186


Winsor, James H., 186


Winsor, Joshua, 119


Winsor, Josiah, 78


Winsor, Justin, 177, 194, 195, 196


Winsor, Nathaniel, 104, 119


Winsor, Samuel, 90


Winsor, Spencer, 116


Winsor, William, 116


Wiswall, Ichabod, 45


Witherell, Gershom, 184


Woodbury, Charles L., 155, 195


Weston, Jabez P., 186


Weston, James, 173


Weston, James H., 183


Weston, James S., 186


Weston, John, 113, 114


Wright, Edmund, 23, 24


Wright, George B., 195, 201


Weston, Joshua, 218


Weston, Levi, 173


Weston, Walter, 183


Weston, William Bradford, 210


Wheeler, William, 23


Whitney, Charles T., 186


Whitney, Lawrence B., 207 Whitney, Nathan, 161


Wilde, James, 23, 147 Willard, Edgar L., 33 Williams, Frank H., 207


Y


York, Alfred B., 207


Wadsworth, William, 183 Walker, Dorothy, 36


Walker, Herbert E., 25, 52


Winslow, Winthrop, 96, 133, 224


Winsor, Charles F., 113


Watson, Edwin H., 32, 33


Webster, Daniel, 169, 173, 180


Webster, Fletcher, 180


Weed, Watson, 50


Weld, Mrs. Charles, 65


Weston, Alden, 96


Weston, Annie W., 218


Weston, Ezra I, 18, 91, 92, 96, 119, 120, 126, 210


Weston, Ezra II, 49, 91, 92, 95, 96, 100, 103, 119, 120, 126, 210


Weston, Gershom B., 20, 48, 96, 159, 160, 180, 181


Wooding, George W., 69


Woodward, William, 186


Worcester, F. J., 23


Wright, Mrs. Arthur W., 61


Weston, Joseph, 141, 216


Willis, Zephaniah, 20


Wright, George W., 156, 195, 196, 201 Wright, Mrs. George W., 201 203 Wright, Mrs. Georgianna B., 203 Wright, William J., 24, 186, 194, · 196, 201


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